more than half a million people still in the dark this morning. >> efforts continue by the hour to get everyone's lights back on. for some, that may not happen for days. many will try to start this monday on a normal note as much as possible. if you've got to go to work today or need to get out of the

house to make another run, we've got more information on that. fox 5 morning news continues right now. >> this is fox 5 morning news. >> it is monday, july 2nd. here is a live look at storm damage in d.c. at this hour. a large tree is blocking part of 42nd street northwest. that is the scene unfortunately in a lot of neighborhood around the d.c. region this morning. good morning. i'm sarah simmons. >> i'm wisdom martin welcome to fox 5 morning news. more than half a million people are without power after friday's storms. both dominion and pepco are working around the clock bringing in crews from as far away as can. but they say some areas might not be back on until the weekend and also we're talking about the traffic situation. many traffic lights are still out. so if you are out and about, can you plan to avoid the traffic mess by taking metro. know that you will need some extra time to do so. metro says many buses are

having to take detours because of the storm damage and metrorail may have to slow down trains to maintain enough power. now, before we get to weather and traffic, we want to get an update on the work and school situation right now. the federal government is open today with an unscheduled leave and unscheduled telework policy in effect. nonemergency federal workers must notify work if they plan to take leave or telework. maryland state workers can also use liberal leave. the d.c. government is open, also montgomery county government is open. bridge county government is all open with liberal leave for employees. >> let's talk about the schools for just a minute. the following public school systems and their summer programs are closed today. d.c. public schools, prince george's county, montgomery county, alexandria city, falls church city and anne arundel county. be sure to check the bottom of your screen for the status of many other private schools. can you find the same information on our web site, myfoxdc.com. hundreds of thousands of people in the area.

they are still waking up without power this morning. here are the latest numbers if we can take a look at them. we'll read them for you. pepco is reporting more than 243 customer without power. dominion vince, more than 152,000 without power in northern virginia. b guest says in montgomery, prince george's, anne arundel and howard counties there are more than 9 #,000 outages. -- bge says in montgomery, prince george's, anne arundel and howard counties, there are more than 90,000 outages. >> not a good day for that. >> yesterday, our temperature was 99 degrees. today, a little bit of improvement and our temperatures will only be in the mid-90s and a little less humidity than yesterday. >> it helps a little. >> it would help more if everybody got their electricity back. you can seat shower activity and thunderstorms. we did have some move through during the overnight hours. our friends across the lower

eastern shore getting in on that. not a great start at the beach although i think that will be out in an hour or two and if you are watching down in ocean city this morning or bethany beach, you should see some sunshine during the day and a little cooler than what we're getting around here. temperatures right now at reagan national. not comfortable, 80 degrees. dulles, 75. bwi marshall, 73. high temperatures later today will top out in the middle 90s and there could be an isolated storm later today. most of your day should be dry with just sunshine. 95 in washington. >> there will probably be a lot of people who will be glad to go in to work since they will probably have air conditioning. >> let's hit the roads right now with julie wright. how is it going this morning? >> it is going slowly and that is kind of what we anticipated. if you didn't, then i don't know where you've been the last couple of days.

we have agot a lot of tree debris to cheap up for you -- to clean up for you this morning. -- we have got a lot of tree debris to clean up for you this morning. fairfax says at least 80 signals without power alone and that is just in fairfax. you will want to treat this as a four-way stop. we have a number of intersections where the traffic lights are not work. that includes a portion of connecticut avenue where we just lost the signal from sky fox. we had them above the scene. but melanie alnwick is reporting live from the scene. between veirs mill road and university, there is a portion of connecticut avenue that is blocked off because of large tree debris that has yet to be cleaned up. we just bumped in with another shot from northwest washington. a number of areas still shut down because of the clean-up t continues right now. the efforts are ongoing. be patient. get out on the roads early this morning. watch your speeds. you just don't know when you are going to lose a lane because there is debris in the

roadway. this happens to be the top stretch of the beltway which is running smoothly notch problems to report there between college park and bethesda. 66, hov rules lifted inside the beltway headed in towards the tr bridge. if you are traveling 95, 395, your hov rules are still in effect. 270, the hov rules have been lifted. on route 50 in maryland, you will fine the hov rules are in effect. that's a check of your fox 5 on-timetraffic. on-timetraffic. -- you will find the hov rules are in effect. the power is being restored for thousands across the region. >> it could be days before some folks are back online in maryland. fox 5's melanie alnwick is live in kensington with the latest there. >> reporter: i know it is small comfort to people who are still without power this morning but the good news that is pepco started with 443,000 customers without power and so we are looking at 243,000, that means 200,000 people have been restored since the power went

out late friday night. and this is what people want to see in their neighborhoods. pepco crews have arrived here at the corner of connecticut avenue and decatur avenue in kensington. they are doing some work up on the utility pole there now. just because they are doing the work there doesn't mean the power will come on to the power any time soon if you take a look at connecticut avenue here, you can see just how extensive the problem is. we've got utility poles that need to be replaced. huge trees down across the road. we haven't seen any southbound traffic actually coming through here in a while which leads me to believe that perhaps they have shut down some of the southbound traffic although we are still seeing northbound traffic coming through on connecticut avenue. today is date that pepco expects to get more crews, more boots on the ground. they are coming from florida, georgia, oklahoma, missouri and canada. they are going to get here, get their orders and they are going to get out into the

neighborhoods. pepco had requested the help of a thousand extra utility workers from extra states but the initial response, only a few hundred. that is because the situation we are dealing with here is very much the same in the neighboring states as well. sunday, pepco did say that all substations were back up and running. 21 of those were out at the height of the storm and they connect about 10,000 people. pepco is asking customers to understand the severity of the damage that they are dealing with and to be patient. >> the estimated restoration time, the global estimated restoration time we are going to provide today is 11:00 p.m. on friday, july 6th. that will represent restoration for the vast majority of our customers. >> reporter: and they do expect for those people that won't be out by the weekend, that they will be telling us on wednesday

evening when that remaining 10% -- they are expecting maybe about 40,000 customers won't be connected through next week. so wednesday evening is the day to be looking for to see just how long some of these people will be without power. we'll keep updating you from here in kensington. back to you. >> a lot of people will be just happy to see those people in their neighborhoods. >> we'll be right back. stay with us. 

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the body of a missing worker has been found at a collapsed building in prince george's county. fire inspectors recovered the body yesterday. worker had been missing since the warehouse collapsed in landover last thursday. twelve other workers were safely evacuated. the did workers' identity will not be release until after an autopsy is completed. d.c. fire officials say one person has life-threatening injuries and two others are in

serious condition. they apparently got sick by carbon monoxide fumes cause bid a generator oning in the basement. many of you have sent in photos of the storm damage that you've seen and one viewer tells us an exit out of their neighborhood in laurel was blocked when four power poles snapped in half. this next picture is from virginia. a v-d.o.t. employee says crews worked all night and half of the next day just to clean up the trees. they found this abandoned car underneath one of them. that is amazing. that is a large tree. we want to see more pictures of the damage and can you just send them to our web site, my weather photo at g mail.com. we'll be right back. 

with the power still out for so many people, cooling centers remain open today. >> they are our freeway to escape the heat. now, we have a complete list on myfoxdc.com.

if you live in d.c., can you also find one near you by dialing 211 or if you live in virginia or maryland, can you call 311. >> or you can try to hang out with tucker barnes. but wait, talker doesn't have it either. >> i don't have power either. >> we don't want to hang out with you. >> well, what's that about? >> not at your house. in here, you're fine. >> we're dividing it up between people who have power and don't have power now. >> no, no, no. >> you have a cooling center to go to. >> i have found a cooling center. nice and could there too yes, temperatures are nice and comfortable. i am concerned about the house. it is terrible. everything in the refrigerator, freezer, gone. all that stuff. fortunately, i didn't have much food in there. let's get to the temperatures from yesterday. and at reagan national, it got up to 99 degrees. a new record at dulles.

we've been doing a lot of that lately. bwi marshall, 97. temperatures in the upper 90s yesterday. today today, a little better. that means mid-90s for afternoon highs. 08 right now in washington. not a comfortable start. 08 in quantico. 78 in leonardtown. cooled you down to 70 in annapolis. -- 80 in quantico. the mountains are doing better as well. here is why it will be a little more comfortable. dew point temperature have fallen just a bit. yesterday morning at this hour, they were running in the low 70s today, in the mid-60s. in a few spots at reagan national, we're down to 61 the current dew point. when dew point temperatures fall, the humidity falls. and it will feel a little better for you with the blue sky and the sunshine we are having across the area, expecting across the area here for your day today. 66 the current dew point in leonardtown. a couple of showers out there and a pretty good thunderstorm

raging about an hour ago now pushing across the lower eastern shore. salisbury, ocean city, getting some pretty good rains at the moment. a few scattered showers north of howard county up into more than maryland. that is about it. otherwise, waking one warm and humid conditions across the area. this little area of shower activity not going to call day cold front but a little upper level disturbance moving through will leave us a little drier in its wake. so it will still be bright and sunny today with eyes in the mid-90s but with a little less humidity, thins should feel a little better. 59 your daytime high. sunshine, could be a few afternoon storms. winds north and west at five to 10. warm and muggy overnight. 74 the overnight low. so the heat wave continues here. 90s all week long. and it looks like our next best chance for thunderstorm activity will be fourth of july during the afternoon. and they be the heat really returned by the end of the week. highs by friday, back near 100. i think next saturday, we'll be back near 100 as well. that is a look at weather.

let's do some traffic and julie wright has her hands full too. what is going on? >> a lot right now. we are hopefully going to check in with sky fox in just a moment. i hope our producer is hearing me say that. we are checking in with our wazers. as more people are out and about, we are alerted to a number of signals around the area that are dark. in montgomery county alone, there are at least 300 signals that are without power. so if you come up to an intersection that is dark, you want to treat it as a four-way stop. connecticut avenue in the area of chevy chase, a number of signals are dark. thank you from gamer 27 for checking in with us this morning. as you continue further south on connecticut avenue headed down into the district, fox 5 is saying you lose the current lane on the southbound side of the highway. i noticed on my trip into work, that normally where you would have two or three lanes available for you, you are likely to lose a lane because of this debris clean-up that is

ongoing at this time. a portion of connecticut avenue remains blocked off between veirs mill road and university boulevard. i know melanie is live out there and she said she noticed there was no traffic coming in the southbound direction. southbound is being did i haveed off at veirs mill road. if you were traveling around town, you will find that your lanes are open but your hov restrictions enter effect in maryland on route 50, lifted on 270. here is a live shot of traffic coming around from university boulevard actually portion of university blocked off between 50 and 4 other due to debris clean-up. i've got signals dark in the district at suitland parkway. 66 inside of the beltway, traffic flowing freely but again, a number of signals dark over on 50. gallows road, 29, lee highway. so to help alleviate some of the congested areas, v-d.o.t. has lived the hov restrictions on 66 to help get you into the district this morning.

can you travel 66 inside of the beltway. the hov restricts have been lifted there. that's a check of your fox 5 on-timetraffic. etraffic. the hov restrictions have been lifted there. the path of destruction was widespread. this is in the harper's ferry area. -- hopefully, we'll have that. there is that picture they are talking about. almost like slicing a truck right in half. >> the power of those big trees and mother nature. >> we'll be right back.

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we want to get some updated information about these power outages. >> our focus right now is in virginia. dominion reports more than 150,000 customers in northern virginia are still without

power this morning. joining us on the phone is dan genesse with dominion virginia power. are there small pockets or are you still having widespread areas that you are dealing with? >> we are still dealing with swidwide spread areas. there is catastrophic damage and pockets of catastrophic damage throughout the northern virginia region. the goal to today is to start to actually get back into the neighborhoods and start to get some of those homes back online. >> some of your restoration times are not available at this point. can you plain to us why. i know a lot of customers want that information. >> we would love to able to provide it to them. we know how much they want it. we find this early in the stage in the restoration process, if we put a time out there, it is likely not to be accurate and

that is more frustrating than not having a time when we put the times out, he want them to be as accurate as we can possibly make them. >> can you tell us when you might have the individual restoration times available to start giving out to people. >> i would think that is probably going to be either tuesday or wednesday but that is just a guess. it will depend on how the repairs go. >> any idea when you might have you think a majority of the customers back online? do you think it will be the weekend. we have talked with pepco and they have set a time maybe next weekend, possibly friday before most of the power is restored. is that kind of the same case for you? year thinking that by tomorrow evening, we will have 80 to 85% of our customers back o by friday, up to 95% on is our goal. there will be some people who will fall into saturday and sunday before they finally get hooked up. >> okay, dan.

new so much. we do appreciate t we know you guys are hard at work out there trying to get everyone's power back on. >> thank you. we are going to check in with pepco around 7:00 to see what the situation is in maryland. we'll have that for you coming up as well. >> a lot of folks will be i want rested in that. our coverage of the aftermath of friday's storm continues throughout the morning here. a long week ahead for many people across our area. this is a live look at 42nd street northwest in d.c. where a large tree you can see right there is blocking the road. it has been throughout the weekend too as a testament to how much work the crews have. holly morris is live in falls church this morning with the t holly? >> reporter: well, the situation here is another powerless situation in falls church where we are live this morning. we've got traffic lights out, a boil water advisory is on. we'll give you the information

you need to know to get through yet another trying day as our coverage of the storm's aftermath continues here on fox 5 morning news. stay with us. 

before we get to weather and traffic, let's get you caught up on the work and school situation. federal government is open today with an unscheduled leave and unscheduled telework policy in effect. nonemergency federal workers must notify work if they plan to take leave or telework. meantime, maryland state workers can also use liberal leave. the d.c. government is open. montgomery county government is open. fridge county government is open with liberal leave for employees. >> let's tuck about schools now for a minute. the following public school systems and their summer programs are closed today. d.c. public schools, prince george's county, montgomery county, alexandria city, falls church city and anne arundel county. be sure to check the bottom of your screen as well for the status of many other private

schools and can you also find that same information on our web site, myfoxdc.com. let's get an update on power outages right now. here are the latest numbers we have. pepco is respecting more than 233,000 customers without power. dominion virginia reporting more than 152,000 without power. and bge says in montgomery, prince george's, anne arundel and howard counties there are more than 98,000 outages. you can stay in touch with us on twitter as well. search myfoxdc.com on facebook. on twitter, we are at wttg morning news and at myfoxdc.com. we'll keep getting information out there for you. anything you need to know and if you know folks out there maybe that don't have power but if they have a phone or tablet, they can also go through myfoxdc.com and watch us live as well if that helps get the information out. weatherwise, we are doing

fine to start your day. we've got some humidity out there. we had a few rain showers and thunderstorms move through overnight. we want to show you the shower and thunderstorm activity lower eastern shore. earlier, this storm was severe. it is kind of falling apart here. still some rain showers down at the beaches. i think you will see a sunny day. the rest of us, lots of sunshine expect and hot gun with highs minister mid-90s although it should feel just a little bit better than yesterday with temperatures down a few degrees and the huge down a little bit as well. temperature right now at reagan national, 08 degrees. baltimore, 72. look at winchester, 64. not bad in the mountains. 70 in hagerstown, a little better. forecast high temperatures, mid- 90s. yesterday, we were 99. so 95 will feel four degrees better. >> we feel like we need to go to the mountains if we want to cool off. >> the natural cooling center. >> only 92 today in winchester. >> only 92. >> it will be feeling great there. >> let's check in with julie

wright and get the latest on traffic. how are things look something. >> slow. it depends on where you are traveling in from. once you get to the beltway, it is looking good but getting there is not easy. the crew in sky fox with us. you can see the area of four corners. this is a far-away shot but if you look close in, we do have police at this particular intersection to help direct the traffic both north and southbound as well as coming east and west along university boulevard. so we do have police officers at some of the intersections to help guide you through there because there are still at least 300 intersections without power according to montgomery county this morning. so again, if you come up to an intersection where the signal lights are dark, there is no help on the scene as there is clearly here, then you will want to treat it as a four-way stop. we have a lot of things to move around for you. as you work your way around the capital beltway, you we'll find traffic volume increasing. hov restrictions lifted on 66 inside the beltway and along 270. here what is i know. there is a portion of foxhall road that is basically blocked off its entire length from

canal road out towards nebraska avenue. that is for clean-up from tree debris, limbs, large trees out on the roadway, that sort of thing. also a portion of canal road shut down between reservoir road and arizona avenue. a number of trees down in the area that need to be cleared out for you. a number of signals affecting your commute this morning as we just mentioned. this includes suitland parkway at naylor road. enterprise road remains blocked off between 450 and 50. we have wires down here in this area. that's a check of your fox 5 on-timetraffic. imetraffic. well, the entire d.c. region feeling the impact of friday's severe storms. hundreds of thousands of residents are still in the dark. >> and many businesses are unable to open because of it. and intersections without traffic signals are causing a hazard for drivers. fox 5's holly morris is live in falls church with the latest on what is going on out there. good morning. >> good morning to you both. we are at one of those intersections where the lights

are out. we are on the line of falls church in annandale. the traffic light behind me is totally dark so they've put the stop sign down. but in the time that we've just been here this morning on annandale road, the light that crosses it here, it has just come on. so it's fluid situation. you know, you want to make sure you are careful when you are out there driving because it could change as you go along. everyone is just trying to feel their way and practice their patience as we all get through this together. but of a heard julie talk about a lot of different numbers in terms intersections being out. fairfax county issued a release saying they have 80 plus intersections with lights out. keep that in mind. build in a little extra time if you are heading out this morning. if you get off the roads like this and go back into the neighborhoods, you can still see sls a lot of work to do. take a look at some pictures we -- there is a lot of work to do. take a look at some pictures we

took this morning. a lot of dangling wires that have yet to be attended to. that is part of the challenge as to why this is taking so long. the officials and clean-up crews need to go into the neighborhoods. they have to remove trees from lines. they have to haul out trees and get that debris out of there. they have to put up new poles, build new wiring so they're really reconstructing part of the system from scratch and that is just not something he can do overnight. while a lot of people are still without power and it is a very frustrating situation, there are some people that are able to keep all of this in perspective. >> i'm very grateful i have a house, i have water and i have working toilets. when you have that, you are okay. i'm not like the people in katrina who had nothing. i'm not going to complain about anything. >> there are always people that are worse off or that have been worse off so that is a good attitude in terms of dealing with this as many people are

entering their third day now without power. we did just hear from dominion virginia power officials and they said the goal is that they will have 80 to 85% back online by tuesday. there will be those people who will not have their power until saturday or sunday. he used the word catastrophic. it was a catastrophic situation that they are still dealing with and it will take some time for them to get through it all. here if falls church, they have also issued a boil water advisory so keep that in mind. if you are going to do any cooking or drinking any water, make sure it is either bottled water or you boil it if it is coming out of the tap. that is the latest here. back to you. >> thank you. a similar situation too in maryland. many folk are still without power there. >> you know the mass outages had some people asking about pepco's plan to improve infrastructure and reliability. let's check in with melanie alnwick live in kensington this

morning. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. a little update here on connecticut avenue where we've had just a really snarled mess is on southbound lanes of connecticut avenue. now, we see tree crews here. we also see pepco crews that are actively working on that mess, that tangled mess of trees and power lines and utility poles. they are in the process of cutting up and getting rid of the one utility pole that was down and they have to replace that and untangle t while it is heartening to seat crews out here working, it doesn't mean the power will come back on right away because there is so much work to do in so many of the neighborhoods. on sunday, pepco did say that all 21 of the substations that were knocked out at the height of storm were back up and running. that is really important. each substation can power up to 10,000 homes. that they say is first step toward untangling what many says the most severe damage to the power system outside of

hurricane isabelle. right now, all high voltage transmission lines, water pumping plants and hospitals are back online. pepco's perform's has been under scrutiny and the company under pressure from the public service commission is midway through a reliability enhancement plan. the president said some of the upgrades are showing improvements. >> in areas where we've done the tree trimming, done cable remacement, put in distribution automation, replaced cross arms, we avenue done everything we k lightning arrests, animal guards, everything we can to improve reliability but have not been able to do so because of the environmental conditions, then we look at selective under grounding. >> thomas graham said with the blue sky outages, the things they were receiving the most criticism for, outages that didn't seem to make any sense that came right out of the blue, that the duration of those because of these

improvement upgrades is down 59% and the frequency of blue sky out ans is down 36%. but that is not the same as the situation that they are dealing with right now and that is a major storm that is outside of those improvements and they say it will have to be put back together piece by piece, block by block when it gets down to the very last homes. they do hope to have it on sometime before 11:00 p.m. on friday. back to you guys. >> thank you very much for that report. we'll talk more about the power situation coming up in the next hour when we go live to pepco headquarterss. we'll be right back. stay with us. ♪

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we are going to get appear update on your weather for you. nothing hike friday night. that is all we care about. >> nothing like friday but more of the same in that our temperatures will be hot again,

mid-90s. could be the risk of a thunderstorm this afternoon. they will be widely scattered. it will feel a little better than this weekend. temperature are only going to top out in the mid-90s. >> i love how he keeps trying to sell that. >> all right. let's go to the temperatures. 80 in washington and quantico. as you get off to the north and west, that is a little better. as you get out towards winchester and martinsburg, temperatures are in the 60s. 68 in martinsburg. looking at the satellite-radar, first radar, showers off to the south and east. can you kind of see them there. they had a severe thunderstorm warning for parts of dorchester about an hour ago but that is pushing out to sea. generally sunshine in the

forecast today. a littl coming through overnight bringing us showers and storms and off to the west and to the north, lots of sunshine. lots of clear skies. it will be a bright, beautiful day but very hot with high temperatures well above normal. sunny and hot, could be an isolated storm later today. wind will be north and west at the five to 10. dew point temperatures will fall just a little bit today. that will make it feel more comfortable. there is your five-day forecast. the heat wave continues. we mentioned last friday that we thought it would stick around for a while. our next chance would be the second half of wednesday. and then it gets hot again by friday, upper 90s. we'll get close to 100 around here friday and saturday. let's hope we get the power back for everybody as soon as we can. >> thank you. and look who is here. >> good morning. >> look who is here. >> look who's here. >> imagine that. gine that.

>> good morning to all of you. and good morning, everybody. those of you who can see us this morning. it is time for ask the weather guys. guys. the segment where tucker barnes and i put our heads together to answer your most pressing questions. today's question comes from theresa about friday's storms. she writes, why with all the cloud-to-ground light anyone wasn't there a lot of startling thunder? i heard some rumbling but not the heart-stopping thunder claps of thunder that usely accompany thunderstorms. excellent observation and excellent question. my experience with the -- i i'll say this w lots of cloud- to-ground lightning and there was some. i saw more cloud to cloud lightning but i also noticed there was not as much thunder.

good question. tucker pretty much knows the answer to this one. >> i've actually seen the green sky now. i always heard about that. >> very fast movement with the storm. i think that had a ten densey to distort the sound. i was outside for part it was and i came in when it got dangerous. the storm was moving so quickly and there was so much wind with it that i think that the sound that you might normally see in a slow-moving summer thunderstorm couldn't be heard. >> that is all i could hear was the wind. >> that is what everybody was talking about. >> i want to mention the dangerous winds. winds were gusting 70 to 80 miles per hour. in reston, a 79-mile per hour wind gust. the winds were extremely strong with this storm. not typical of most summer

thunderstorms across the washington area. you have your fast movement, the storm moving 06 miles per hour. you have winds here at the surface 70 to 80 miles per hour. as tony mentioned, i watched the storm move in on radar as well. and generally across the area, we did have some cloud-to- ground lightning but we did have a lot of cloud to cloud lightning. can you look out your window, look out in the sky and see the lightning and it might appear that it is reaching the ground but it can just be flashing across the clouds. >> when you see that kind of flashing, that flickering, that we were seeing there. that is i lot of cloud to cloud lightning which can be very high up in the atmosphere and you can see it from a long distance away as well which would also mean less thunder or muted thunder as well if it is very far away. >> every lightning bolt produces a thunder echo, a thunder boom. it is there whether or not you hear it. one way to tell if it is cloud to cloud lightning is if you

look in the sky and you can see the cloud ill lull night. >> i saw that this morning -- illuminate. >> i saw this this morning. >> we have another good question about the storm for tomorrow. >> thank you for the question. if you have a question that you would like to have answered, go to myfoxdc.com and click on the weather tab. >> there you go. >> let's say good morning again to julie wright. she has the latest on traffic for us. >> more people out and about and a lot going on. thank you very much. jan from northern virginia checked in. police are visible. you have to know there are a lot of intersections that are still dark. we do find police out there at gum springs road trying to help you through the intersections. good morning to the crew in sky fox above georgia avenue south of the beltway headed out towards 16th street. that is where we had large tree debris that needed to be

cleaned up from the right side of the road. my trip inbound on georgia avenue wasn't this comfortable. the right lane was pretty much under tree debris coming from seminary road headed south of 16th street headed down towards the big church headed down into downtown silver spring. we do have police out here helping to direct you through. let me map out a couple of other problems for you quickly if i may. if you are travel ago long foxhall road, yes, i speak with d-do the again, second call. it is blocked off between canal and nebraska. the whole stretch of foxhall road is blocked off for clearance of tree debris. we've also got signals that are dark along the suitland parkway at naylor road. if you come up to a signal light that is dark, treat it as a four-way stop. out to the east, enterprise roadblocked off between 4 other and 50 with wires down across the highway. e highwa that's a check of your fox 5

on-timetraffic. . we want to stay on the road situation right now and the difficulty a lot of people are having getting around in some places. >> intersections in maryland have been hit hard with no power right now. we'll get an update now from dave buck with the maryland state highway administration. good morning, dave. can you hear us. >> how are you? >> good. >> let's talk first about these traffic lights, that situation. i know at least in montgomery county we were reporting a little while ago 240 intersections without lights. how big of an issue is this right now? >> it is widespread. thing that will be the difficult part as the power starts to come back on to certain areas, you will be going down a road and when a traffic signal, when the traffic until does come bay on, it will flash red for the side road and flash yellow firefighters so you know what it comes on. -- when the traffic signal does

come back on. you will be traveling down connecticut or river road, you will have signals come back on and you have to get used to the fact that the conditions will change quickly. >> any suctions for drivers. we told them to act like it's stop sign. act like it is a stop sign. and you have to leave police officers some some situations. any other advice or anything else drivers can do to keep safe? >> absolutely. i think one of the difficult things is to get people to treat it as a four-way stop when you are on a main road and the side road has suchling traffic. what they construe to be the road that has 80 or 90% of the traffic, they are looking ahead at 40, 45.

try to make eye contact if you can. there will be a lot of that going on over the next couple days. if you don't make the eye contact, you run the risk of having the person run right through and t-bone you. >> i saw someone using their hazard lights when they would approach intersections just to give people a warning? do you think that is a good idea? >> i think that is a fantastic idea until you get out on the interstate keep the hazard on. i think it is a perfect way to approach an intersection. >> okay. thank you very much. you're welcome. >> we want people to be extra careful when they are approaching the intersections. coming up next, we are talking with pepco for an update on the power situation this morning. >> fox 5 morning news is back in just a moment. stay with us. get the car. hi howard. get in.

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retune for several years now. she wants to know julie's secrets for looking young. we'll try to find out. thanks for being our fan of the day. >> i'm sure she'll want to share. >> sure she will. that does it for the 6:00 hour. >> let's send it over to allison and tony. good morning. >> good morning. coming up on fox 5 morning news, thousands waking up in the dark once again. crews are working around the clock to restore power from friday's deadly storm. but it could be days until everyone is back in business. and the extreme heat is making the situation even more dire. an update from pepco straight ahead. >> plus -- >> the tree that was laying on the wires snapped under the tension. >> trees are blocking roads and the death toll continues to rise. we're getting a closer look at the path of